Quality Of Scientific Research Research Articles

Podwójny dyplom jako narzędzie podnoszenia jakości szkolnictwa wyższego

The article examines the issue of double diplomas in the context of improving the quality of education, using the example of Polish universities. It analyses the educational market of universities in Poland. The implementation of international double degree programs affects the formation of the innovative educational environment of the university and contributes to the development of students’ set of key competencies and the formation of human capital. The article describes the advantages and disadvantages of participating in double degree programs for students, faculty, and higher education, in general. It further shows the influence of the double diploma program on the quality of training of highly qualified specialists. The development and implementation of double degree educational programs in practice correspond to the general strategic interests of the development of Polish universities in the modern educational space from the point of view of improving the quality of education and scientific research, increasing the competitiveness of universities and generally comply with the main principles and provisions of the Bologna process. An algorithm for the implementation of double diploma programs has been developed, which will contribute to the internationalization of higher education, and its integration into the world educational space.

Evaluating the effects of simulated interprofessional teaching on the development of clinical core competence in nursing students: a mixed methods study

BackgroundWhile single-method studies have reported on the effectiveness of simulated interprofessional teaching, our understanding of its full effects remains incomplete. Teaching design also provides no relevant theoretical guidance, which reduces the scientific quality and rigor of research. The purpose of this work was to study the effects of the simulated interprofessional education (SIPE) teaching model based on the 3P theory on the course of "Clinical Critical Thinking Training" through a convergent mixed method, and to provide the basis for future teaching design.MethodsA convergent mixed-method design was used, which consisted of a survey and a semi-structured interview. Data collection took place from September 2021 to July 2022. A cluster sampling method was used to select 60 full-time nursing students from a school in China, and randomly divide them into a control group of 36 and an experimental group of 24. According to the principle of voluntary participation, 6 students majoring in clinical medicine and 6 students majoring in pharmacy were recruited to join the experimental group to form an interprofessional team. The students studied “Clinical Critical Thinking Training” together, in which the control group used traditional simulation teaching and the experimental group used SIPE. The CCTDI (California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory) and AITCS-II Student (Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration in Student Learning Scale) were used for quantitative evaluation before and after the course, and descriptive statistics and Mann–Whitney U test were used to compare the critical thinking and interprofessional collaboration skills of the two groups of students. Semi-structured interviews were used for qualitative evaluation. Thematic analysis was used to understand student development on the basis of inter-professional core competencies and learning experience.ResultsThe students’ interprofessional cooperation abilities and critical thinking scores improved compared with the beginning of the course, but the scores of the experimental group were significantly higher than the control group (p < 0.05). Three themes emerged regarding simulated interprofessional teaching: clarifying team positioning, improving team efficiency, and optimizing the learning experience.ConclusionSIPE can build students' critical thinking, teamwork, and interprofessional core competencies, which makes it a useful teaching design.

The impact of digital learning resources on developing the educational process for faculty members at the PAAET

The study aimed to identify the impact of digital learning resources on the development of the educational process for faculty members at the PAAET, and its role in developing the academic capabilities of faculty members, including the areas of academic advancement and the quality of scientific research in the international publishing observatories, where the study applied the curriculum standards survey descriptive; The questionnaire was applied as a main tool to measure the impact of digital learning resources on the development of the educational process for faculty members through a sample of (78) faculty members from various disciplines. The study concluded that digital learning resources are one of the most important sources for developing the educational process for faculty members. Teaching, whether at the level of scientific research or academic promotion, with its active role in the development of the educational process. The study recommended the need to expand the use of faculty members for digital learning resources, with the need to intensify training courses and workshops in this field, with the need to develop policies and decisions related to their field of work, which In turn, it enhances the development of the educational process.

CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INNOVATION SYSTEM IN THE PRC

The article is devoted to the process of transition of the People’s Republic of China from the position of a country successfully adapting and using modern foreign technologies to the state of a country with a domestic innovation system capable of independently creating its own breakthrough technologies and generating impulses of global development. The author shows a radical change in the position of science in the country over the past decade. The number of people employed in R&amp;D has more than doubled with a 3.5-fold increase in research and development funding. The prestige and demand for researches and engineers have significantly increased in the Chinese society.&#x0D; &#x0D; Solving the above-mentioned tasks has required serious institutional innovations, including the implementation of numerous state R&amp;D programs, the redistribution of functions and responsibilities between various participants in the innovation process (e.g. public research organizations, colleges and universities, state-owned and private companies), strengthening the role of the business sector in financing, development and commercialization of new technologies, the comprehensive development of international scientific and technological cooperation etc. Both direct and indirect sources of R&amp;D financing as well as different forms of implementing investment projects in the field of R&amp;D are considered in detail. Cases of the most successful innovative companies and projects are presented.&#x0D; &#x0D; Special attention is paid to the analysis of China’s success in creating a post-industrial knowledge society, including the country’s rising position in various international rankings reflecting innovative development in whole and its particularities. The problems and difficulties on this path are also characterized with a special accent on improving the quality and efficiency of scientific research, as well as a more effective protection of intellectual property rights in the country.

Gender bias and menstrual blood in stem cell research: A review of pubmed articles (2008-2020).

Despite proven scientific quality of menstrual blood mesenchymal cells, research and science output using those cells is still incipient, which suggests there is a resistance to the study of this type of cell by scientists, and a lack of attention to its potential for cell therapy, regenerative medicine and bioengineering. This study analyzes the literature about the menstrual blood mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (mbMSC) on the PubMed database between 2008-2020 and the social attention it received on Twitter. A comparative analysis showed that mbMSC accounts for a very small portion of mesenchymal cell research (0.25%). Most first authors are women (53.2%), whereas most last authors are men (63.74%), reinforcing an already known, and still significant, gender gap between last and corresponding authors. Menstrual blood tends to be less used in experiments and its scientific value tends to be underestimated, which brings gender bias to a technical and molecular level. Although women are more positive in the mbMSC debate on Twitter, communication efforts toward visibility and public interest in menstrual cells has room to grow.

Update of the Master’s Program on the Basis of Action Research Project: Academic Skills Development Issues in Theory and Practice

The national project "Quality Education - An Educated Nation" provides for systematically implementing the Action Research approach in the education system. According to the future-oriented project "Knowledge and Skills 2030" of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), quality education, skills, abilities and competencies, continuous learning, goal setting, critical thinking, creativity, self-awareness - The importance of improving and developing self-regulation, "learning to learn", cognitive and metacognitive skills. The problems identified at the domestic and foreign levels in the formation of Master's research and academic writing skills, according to the results of numerous studies in this field, are associated with the gap between theory and practice, low level of information and communication skills, difficulties in processing statistical data, working with bibliography using information programs. The article considers the need for consistent implementation of the research project in action within the framework of the Master's program of Kazakhstan to bridge the gap between theory and practice and improve the quality of scientific research of Master's theses and academic writing. This argument was confirmed by a collaborative experimental study in three cycles based on a research project in action on the ZOOM platform (because this platform is actively used in the educational process and is the most accessible resource while having advantages of both technical, organizational, and creative nature), to determine the impact of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies on the academic performance of first-year students of the Faculty of Philology. The improvement of the proposed project by the requirements of the success criteria and its introduction into the Master's program of the scientific and pedagogical profile of Kazakhstan can solve the problems of theory and practice in the field of education and science. Key words: Action Research project, Action &nbsp;Research methodology, master's dissertation, theoretical knowledge, pedagogical practice, experiment, cognitive and metacognitive strategies.

Moving toward sustainable software citation practices to improve the quality of scientific research

Software is essential for scientific research and is applied in research methodology, data analysis, and knowledge dissemination. Scientists believe that software plays a crucial role in their research process, so it is necessary to recognize the contribution of software developers. This study aims to investigate the current situation of software citation in scientific research and explore possible solutions to improve its sustainability via full-text content analysis. There is a gap between the use and the citation of software in scientific publications, and the lack of information in software citations has been a source of both failure and improvement of software in scientific research. We found various deficiencies that hinder the durability of software citations and put forward some suggestions for their stability and development, such as designing software citation standards, promoting free open licensing of scientific software, and implementing strict peer review of software citations.

An investigation of mission differentiation and specialization in Turkish universities in the context of strategic objectives

This study examines and compares the strategic objectives of the universities included in the “mission differentiation and specialization on the basis of regional development” project carried out in the Turkish higher education system and well-established universities in Turkiye. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine how the goal of “mission differentiation and specialization on the basis of regional development” is tried to be realized in the higher education system and whether this goal really brings a difference to the activities of universities. The study was conducted through document review. The universities included in the study were determined by criterion sampling and two different study groups were formed for comparison. The first study group consisted of the universities involved in the mission differentiation project. The second study group consisted of the well-established universities located in various geographical regions of Turkiye. Data were analyzed through the content analysis. The strategic objectives of the universities were examined under the themes of increasing quality in education, increasing the quantity and quality of scientific research, improvement of communication and interaction with stakeholders, strengthening of corporate identity/structure/ensuring institutionalization and internationalization. The strategic objectives of the universities with mission differentiation are also analyzed in terms of leading local and regional development. The results of the research show that universities subject to mission differentiation and well-established universities have different qualifications only in terms of “leading local and regional development” and “strengthening community service studies.” However, there are also points where goals and performance indicators depending on these strategic objectives are resembled. The similarities in the strategic objectives of the universities show that the missions of the universities with mission differentiation and specialization should first be clarified based on a general framework provided by the Council of Higher Education. In line with the guiding framework, universities should establish their unique strategic objectives in the strategic planning process in order to contribute to regional development. &#x0D; Received: 20 October2021Accepted: 7 October 2022

Registered reports in forensic science.

Research assessing the validity and reliability of many forensic science disciplines has been published; however, the quality of this research varies depending on the methodologies employed. This was a major point of contention with the United States' President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, who recognized the existing literature but found the majority lacking because of methodological issues. Questionable scientific methodologies have undermined the forensic science community's ability to defend the scientific foundations and examination protocols used to examine evidence in criminal cases. Such scientific failures have significant legal implications. Registered reports, which strengthen the quality of scientific research and reliability of laboratory protocols, can provide transparency, validity and a stronger scientific foundation for forensic science.

Research and Implementation of "Personalized Orientation" Talent Training Program Based on Geely Automobile

With the application of new intelligent manufacturing technology to transform the specialty, build a personalized talent training mode deeply integrated into innovation education. Build a curriculum system highly integrated with the professional ability development needs of core posts related to the pillar industries such as the vehicle factory and power base of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd., focusing on the improvement of innovation ability and the application of new technologies, and establish a trinity practical teaching system of "training, research and development, innovation". Strengthen the construction of high-quality teaching resources, improve the application level of digital teaching resources, and improve the level of the "double teachers and double abilities" teacher team. Deepen the integration of production and education, greatly improve the quantity and quality of scientific research and enterprise technological transformation, and significantly expand the depth and breadth of school enterprise cooperation.

Open Science and Research Infrastructures provide the foundation and pillars necessary to tackle global environmental issues

Open Science and Research Infrastructures provide the foundation and pillars necessary to tackle global environmental issues Two very positive outcomes have emerged from COVID-19: the evidence that Open Science (OS) is critical to overcome global crisis; and the relevance of research infrastructures (RIs) to accelerate the quality, reproducibility, and impact of scientific research. In this article, Nicolas Pade and Anne Emmanuelle Kervella look at the rapid sequencing of the virus, data sharing and tracking of viral strains, which lead the world to a fast and global response to COVID, led by researchers. Taking this knowledge, they look at how global issues could be tackled using a scientific approach given sufficient financial means, looking at what lessons could be drawn from Open Science – such as environmental challenges due to human activity.

Foreign Lecturers Management in Higher Education Institutions: International Experiences and Suggestions

By reviewing previous studies on foreign lecturers and foreign lecturers management, this paper aims at exploring experiences in managing foreign lecturers from an international perspective, which can be applied to higher education institutions (HEIs) in Vietnam. These experiences are expected to attract more foreign lecturers and utilize them successfully, which in turn improves the quality of training, scientific research and international integration of HEIs in Vietnam. To accomplish these purposes, this study has used the method of reviewing documents related to foreign lecturers and managing foreign lecturers. The results of this article demonstrate increasingly important roles of foreign lecturers in HEIs, the diverse difficulties they encounter when working there, as well as various factors motivating them to come to these institutions. By summarizing the experiences of managing foreign lecturers in reviewing countries, the article proposes some policy suggestions and solutions for managing foreign lecturers in HEIs in Vietnam.

Statistics Education in Undergraduate Psychology: A Survey of UK Curricula

Graduates from psychology programmes are likely to use data skills throughout their career, regardless of whether they continue into research. Statistical education in psychology programmes, however, emphasizes inferential statistical tests over a deep understanding of data and data skills, which can lead to the problematic use and interpretation of statistics. Indeed, widely-used statistical practices appear to undermine the quality of scientific research and mislead end-users of data. Several proposals have been made for how to improve these practices—with effective statistical education being one. With this in mind, we sought to document the statistical content currently taught to undergraduate psychology students in the UK. Contrary to our expectations, we found that only 19% of universities had publicly available curricula describing the statistical content taught in their undergraduate psychology programme. Of the curricula we obtained, most of them mentioned specific tests (ANOVAs, regression, correlation, t-tests, frequency tests, and rank tests) and about half mentioned probability and randomness, effect size, and statistical power, but few mentioned concepts such as confidence intervals, multiple comparisons, meta-analysis, replication, Bayesian statistics, frequentist statistics, and practical significance. These findings suggest that undergraduate psychology programmes may not emphasize statistical concepts (e.g., uncertainty) that are important for both everyday thinking and for effectively reporting and interpreting scientific research.

An Extensive Study on Factors Affecting the Quality of Higher Education and Research in Libya

Knowledge and education are considered the backbone of every society; they are driving power and energy for any country's progress. Although this is a fact, there are indications of a low level of education in most Arab countries, especially those that exposed to political complications. Recently in our regions, the reluctance of faculty members to give has been observed, and the educational outcomes had deteriorated in recent years as compared to prior generations. This is due to ignoring several crucial factors that affect the educational process- the lecturer and the surrounding environment, which are the cornerstones of increasing educational and research outcomes and quality. Therefore, this paper reviews literature relating to education and scientific research quality demonstrated with analyses of specific initiatives to support quality. The ultimate goal of this research is to develop a list of the pertinent factors and components that affect the standard of higher education and scholarly inquiry in Libyan institutions and universities, as well as viable solutions to these problems.

The impacts of total quality management practices in Algerian higher education institutions.

Algerian universities rely on total quality management. TQM is one of the most successful strategic options for improving the quality of higher education. In addition, achieving academic accreditation and progress in international rankings. The study aims to address relevant contemporary issues by examining the impact of total quality management on the quality of higher education. The data were analyzed using a mixed-method approach; the study was done as a survey, with data collected via questionnaires issued to 610 students. The questionnaire included Likert scale items that were quantitatively evaluated and modeled using structural equation modeling (SEM) using Amos to accomplish the path analysis of the research model. Furthermore, qualitative data were acquired through interviews with 24 professors who are members of the Quality Cells, and qualitative data were evaluated using content analysis with NVivo. The study findings revealed that TQM has a direct and significant impact on the quality of graduates, scientific research, and community service in Algerian universities. The main results have been presented, and recommendations for future research are made.

Awareness and perception of pharmacy researchers about conflict of interest: A study from the MENA region.

The literature has shown some bias in research about the effectiveness and efficacy of medications due to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, researchers' understanding of conflict of interest (COI) is substantial and may influence the quality of scientific research. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to assess pharmacy researchers' awareness and perception about COI in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the factors affecting their disclosure of COI. In this cross-sectional study, a convenience sample of pharmacy researchers from the MENA region was surveyed for their awareness and perception about the principles of COI. The questionnaire was divided into three main sections. The first section assesses the demographic information of the study participants; the second section assesses researchers' awareness and practices in dealing with COI; and, finally, the third section assesses participants' perception about COI. The questionnaire was uploaded on the Google Forms electronic platform, and it was distributed to the potential study participants via their professional emails. Finally, logistic analysis was used to evaluate predictors affecting COI disclosure by the study participants. A total of 271 pharmacy researchers participated in this study. Researchers were distributed based on their academic rank as follows: 63 professors (23.3%), 59 associate professors (21.8%), 97 assistant professors (35.8%), and 52 lecturers (19.2%). The majority of researchers indicated that they were familiar with the concept of COI (88.9%), and they agreed that the existence of COI should be disclosed by all authors (84.5%). About 33.2% of the study participants did not know if their institution had a policy for COI. About half of the participants (48.70%) believed that disclosure is the only way for the management of COI. However, only 41.7% of them (n = 113) indicated that they had disclosed COI in their published research. Finally, participants who have a collaboration with the industry showed a significantly lower tendency to disclose their COI than those who do not have any partnership with the industry (OR = 0.471, p = 0.017). The majority of the pharmacy researchers from the MENA region are familiar with the principles of COI, but a lower percentage of them disclose their COI in their published research. Efforts should be made to educate researchers about the importance of disclosing COI, which might reduce the potential of bias in their published research.

EHealth and Web-Based Interventions for Informal Carers of People With Dementia in the Community: Umbrella Review.

BackgroundThe prevalence of dementia is increasing, and there are many associated problems that family members face as informal carers, including emotional, physical, and financial difficulties. There are benefits for a person with dementia to live at home for as long as possible, and therefore, supporting their informal carers is crucial. The growing interest in supporting carers through internet-based interventions is evidenced by the volume of systematic reviews on this topic. It is now appropriate to systematically examine this body of work and provide an overview of the literature.ObjectiveThis umbrella review aimed to identify the most effective internet-based intervention content and delivery method to support those caring for someone with dementia living in the community.MethodsPsycINFO, Web of Science, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, and PubMed were searched for systematic reviews examining the effectiveness of web-based interventions for informal carers of people with dementia. A total of 3 reviewers extracted data and evaluated the quality of the papers. To ascertain the extent to which the systematic reviews reported on the same evidence, the proportion of overlap between their included studies was calculated. Qualitative research findings were extracted and reported.ResultsA total of 21 papers were included in the study. The quality of the review papers was mainly rated as low to moderate, and 10% (2/21) of papers were of high quality. The findings suggest that multicomponent interventions were the most effective in supporting carers. These included combinations of cognitive behavioral therapy and relaxation strategies, educational resources, and online support groups. Interventions that were delivered on the web but included sessions with a personal element, such as telephone contact, showed the best results. When comparing the studies reviewed in all the review papers, a moderate overlap was noted. However, when comparing individual reviews with each other, they showed a high overlap of the included studies.ConclusionsMixed delivery methods and intervention content showed the most effective results in supporting those caring for people with dementia. However, many papers do not separate the results for differing intervention contents or delivery; this needs to be considered when drawing conclusions. There was an overlap among the studies included in the reviews. This suggests a lack of current research on the effectiveness of web-based interventions for people caring for a person with dementia. There was also a lack of consistency in the outcome measures across all papers. Future studies can involve updating research on the effectiveness of these interventions while distinguishing between different intervention types, thus creating guidelines for the use of standardized measures to enable comparisons of intervention effects and improve the scientific quality of the overall research.Trial RegistrationPROSPERO CRD42021241559; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=241559

J’ai dû me renseigner sur la DSAC en effectuant des recherches sur Google

<h3>Abstract</h3> Software plays a crucial and growing role in research. Unfortunately, the computational component in Life Sciences research is challenging to reproduce and verify most of the time. It could be undocumented, opaque, may even contain unknown errors that affect the outcome, or be directly unavailable, and impossible to use by others. These issues are detrimental to the overall quality of scientific research. One step to address this problem is the formulation of principles that research software in the domain should meet to ensure its quality and sustainability, resembling the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) Data Principles. Within the ELIXIR infrastructure, OpenEBench aims to be an open platform providing both support for scientific benchmarking and an active observatory of software quality for the universe of Life Sciences research software. We present our initial proposal to instantiate a FAIR-like framework for assessing software quality as the first step toward the implementation of such an observatory in OpenEBench.

Science Metrics Systems and Academic Promotion: Bosnian Reality

Societal importance and the quality of scientific research highly depend on the usefulness of the results of research for the societal and scientific community. The wish to allocate the funds to high-quali-ty research and to establish right criteria for scientific evaluation and academic career progression, make scientific criteria increasingly important to measure the quality of research and knowledge valorization. However, it is very difficult to apply the right criteria which can objectively assess scientific research. For many years, there has been a great interest in scientific ranking and evaluation of scientific journals, but also of sci-entific contribution of scientists. It is generally accepted that the IF (WoS) and the total number of citations of articles published in the journal, are the most relevant parameters of the journal's significance. However, the significance of a scientist and the value of their scientific production are much more complicated to evaluate and they cannot be directly reflected by the importance of the journals in which their articles are published. In this article, the authors describe and evaluate the most known scientific databases which are used in science. The majority of existing science metric systems, which evaluate the achievement of scientists are focused solely on the number of citations of their articles. For example, H-index, which is calculated as the lowest ranked ar-ticle which number of citations matches its ranking number, has considerable shortcoming because it does not take into account the individual contribution of each author and allows expanding author lists with authors whose contribution may be insignificant or none. Therefore, the authors propose Z-score, as a new science met-ric system, which takes into account the author's contribution to the scientific article and greatly remedy major discrepancies in evaluating scientific production of individual authors and institutions.

Performance Management of Education and Teaching Reform Based on Convolutional Neural Network

The teaching reform of higher education has always attracted much attention, and higher education has been the key object of the national education reform. The quality of higher education, the quality of talent training, the quality of scientific research, the quality of social service, and the structure to produce characteristics must all be improved. The success of higher education teaching reform is not only related to the quality of university personnel training and important task of serving the society, but also related to connotative development of universities and sustainable development of higher education. Education and teaching reform is an all-round and systematic project, which involves reforms in different aspects, such as teaching management, teacher teaching, professional setting, and curriculum development. The outcome of the extended efforts and practical advancements in education teaching reforms is to evaluate the effects and achievements of these reforms. However, the reforms and achievements of education and teaching are much higher and effective in comparison to improvements in theoretical research and practical experience. Therefore, this work is based on the CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) and designed an intelligent model for the evaluation and management of peer-to-peer education and teaching reform achievements. This work contributes in the following three manners: (I) It includes construction of a deep one-dimensional CNN and sends relevant data of college education and teaching reform into network with the objective to realize adaptive feature extraction and high-accuracy evaluation. (II) It also realizes the management of higher education teaching quality. (III) It aims to show a greater impact of hyperparameters in the CNN performance, genetic algorithm. This proposition is to optimize hyperparameters. It proves the validity and authenticity of this work through systematization, logic, and experiment.